All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
LEO TOLSTOYWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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